Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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Credit: Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the caufes to which you attribute it. But be the caufe, what it may, if it pleafe God to take me away fuddenly, I have left directions on my will to fend an account of my death to you, with apermiffion for you to order fuch an examination of my body, as will fhew the caufe of it; and, perhaps, tend at the fame time to a difcovery of the origin of that diforder, which is the fubjeCt of this letter, and be productive of means to counteract and remove it. I am, Sir, Yours, UNKNOWN.” London,. April 16, 1772. The foregoing letter feems to have been written in fuch a fenfible and natural manner, that the writer would probably neither miftake his own feel¬ ings through fancy, nor mifreprefent 5 them